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Out with the old, in with the new

December – the season of giving and getting. At some point, when you’re getting all that new stuff, you have to decide what to do with the old stuff.

We remember when we moved house a couple of years ago and came across 3 computers collecting dust in the attic. ‘What should we do with them?’ we asked. We tried to remember if anything ‘important’ had been stored on them. We wiped the hard drives and wondered if that was enough. We wiped them again and then we removed the hard drives and beat them up with a hammer. Nothing like good physical destruction to relieve tension and ensure that a device won’t spill your data ‘beans’.

“At the end of the day, you’re never going to guarantee complete security when you’re selling your phone [or other device – editor]. There are all sorts of extremely advanced attacks. If you’re paranoid about it, don’t sell it. Destroy it.”